Problems with illegal characters in Pathnames

Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) lhall@rfk.com
Thu Apr 19 07:18:00 GMT 2001


At 09:31 AM 4/19/2001, Ralf Habacker wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm porting applications for Windows (using X11 and KDE) and one often
>recognized problem is that application using
>the content of the DISPLAY environment variable to generate filenames
>directly. Under Windows character ':' and some other aren't allowed for
>filenames, so this applications will fail on running.
>
>I've found a function "mount_info::conv_to_win32_path" in the cygwin
>library. Is it possible, that this function can convert illegal filename
>characters to valid ?



I'm not sure but you can either try it or look at the code to see if it
will do this for you.



Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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